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After hearing that Fang Li and Zhu Yicheng were trapped, the village chief seemed very nervous. He asked from the front, "Have you looked back?"

Fang Li said, "No, we held back."

He saw that Gong Xuefeng and Xu Bozhong had already walked in front of him, of course he would not look back because of another "Gong Xuefeng" behind him.

Hearing what he said, the village chief seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Xie Baiyuan suddenly asked: "What will happen when you turn around?"

The village head said: "What can happen... In short, it is unlucky for us."

When Fang Li and Zhu Yicheng were alone just now, only Xie Baiyuan, who was the closest, noticed something strange at first.

Immediately after the two yelled, the people in front heard Fang Li's "run" and stopped in their tracks to wait for the two to return to the team.

Who looked back during this period, although no one said it, but the people around him knew it well.

Therefore, the village chief said nothing, but because he was vague, he gave these people room to make up their minds.

What can happen... In short, it's not a good thing.

Everyone was silent during the second half of the journey, but nothing went wrong, and the funeral team climbed up the hill smoothly.

The mountain here is not considered steep, on the contrary, there is a large platform on the top of the mountain, surrounded by woods.

This is where Fang Li was when he first entered the dungeon.

Yesterday was foggy and the visibility was quite low. They didn't notice the celestial burial platform in the middle.

Now that he has reached the top of the mountain, there are no trees covering his head, and the moon has also emerged from behind the clouds. Under the cold moonlight, Fang Li finally has a clear view of the celestial burial platform.

This is a man-made stone platform, with several stone tablets and wooden poles erected around it. On the wooden poles, hanging prayer flags, are dancing in the wind.

The vultures seemed to have received the signal and came to the celestial burial platform early. Some stood on the bamboo poles and looked down at the crowd below, and some hovered above their heads. Every time they flapped their wings, they brought the breath of death.

The girl named Su Ya in the team looked at the scene in front of her, probably thinking of the vulture eating the corpse for a while, her complexion turned pale, and a stream of sour water rushed from her stomach to her throat.

"Xiao Su!" The man beside her gave her a hand, seeing how nervous he was, these two are also a couple.

Su Ya held on and waved to him, signaling that she was fine.

At this time, the village head said: "Don't be afraid, we didn't plan to let you watch the whole process. Your mission tonight is over here."

Needless to say, Fang Li could have guessed the result.

After all, this is a local funeral custom, and foreigners like them are not suitable to participate in it.

The next step is to dispose of the body, dismembering the body.

But this is what those young people who hold torches need to do. The village chief took a torch and said to take them down the mountain.

"You can't turn back when you go down the mountain, otherwise the undead will attach to you and follow you back." The village chief's tone was a bit dark.

Fang Li had the experience of going up the mountain, so he was not very scared at the moment. He remembered the stone tablet he saw just now beside the celestial burial platform. There were words engraved on the stone tablet. It seems to be exactly the same as seen on the back of the stone statue of the woman.

So he made a curious look and asked the village chief: "May I ask, what do the words engraved on those stone tablets mean?"

Hearing the words, the village chief gave him a deep look, and his footsteps were deep and shallow. After a long while, he said:

"That's a warning saying: Those who betrayed their faith in life cannot enter heaven after death."

Because I was only in charge of the funeral, it was only a quarter past ten when I returned to the yard.

Although the weather here is cold, I still sweat a little while carrying the corpse up the mountain.

Fang Li poured a basin of cold water and barely wiped himself off.

In this small village, if you want to use some hot water, you have to light the stove and cook in a big pot. There is no electricity in the village, and the lighting is either torches or oil lamps. Life is almost out of touch with modern society.

When the cold water touched his skin, Fang Li shivered from the cold.

He wiped his body quickly and hid in the bed.

He originally thought that the quilt was cold and hard, and it would take a while to fall asleep, but as soon as he lay down, his eyelids became heavy, and he fell into a deep sleep within a few minutes.

After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, a cold hand began to play tricks on his face.

He brushed it away with his hand and opened his eyes, it was indeed Xie Baiyuan.

"You're here..." Fang Li turned over, buried his face in the bed, and couldn't keep his eyes open: "What time is it?"

Xie Baiyuan straightened his head, showed him the time on the watch, and said softly, "It's just after twelve o'clock."

He lit the oil lamp in the house with the lighter he carried with him, and the small room suddenly became much brighter.

Only then did Fang Li remember that Xie Baiyuan asked him to go to him at night in the morning, so he explained with bewildered eyes: "I wanted to wait for everyone to turn off the lights to find you, but fell asleep."

Xie Baiyuan paused, but Fang Li closed his eyes and didn't notice anything unusual about him.

He only heard Xie Baiyuan say in his ear: "It's okay, it's the same when I come to you."

Even though he was used to Xie Baiyuan saying all kinds of love words, Fang Li's ears still felt a little hot.

"By the way, I brought you something."

Fang Li was a little curious: "What is it?"

Then he saw Xie Baiyuan took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

"Where did you find it?" Fang Li was surprised.

The mobile phone can be used to check the time and take pictures, which is very useful in this dungeon.Fang Li took it and checked it and said, "I don't even know when I lost it."

Xie Baiyuan said: "It's in the woods. Put it away, don't lose it again."

Fang Li responded repeatedly, and after confirming that the screen of the phone was not broken and that it could be used normally, he put it in his backpack.

There are so many people in the daytime, it is inconvenient for them to chat too much about clues related to the dungeon.Now that there are only two people, it is a good time to communicate.

Fang Li cheered himself up, sat up and talked to Xie Baiyuan about his thoughts when he went up the mountain.

"...I thought about it again when I was going down the mountain. Does this reincarnation have anything to do with the local villagers?"

At first, he set his sights on the custom of sky burial, but tonight they all went to the sky burial platform. Apart from experiencing the strange funeral customs, there was almost no other gain in the whole process.

Later, because of those steles with engraved characters, he focused his attention on the main body of the sky burial—the local villagers.

The birth, old age, sickness and death of the villagers is also a kind of reincarnation.

Xie Baiyuan said: "There is a possibility."

Fang Li went on to say: "But our travel is restricted. I saw that only Gong Xuefeng slipped out during the day. It's really impossible..."

He looked at Xie Baiyuan, his eyes revealed that he was eager to try: "Shall we go into the dog hole?"

Xie Baiyuan: "..." He smiled helplessly: "Just grab the one who has been out and ask if it's all right?"

Fang Li said silently in his heart: You really think like a robber.

On the face, he nodded in cooperation: "It makes sense."

"Okay." Xie Baiyuan seemed a little sleepy, yawned, and turned off the oil lamp.

"Take a good night's sleep first."

In the darkness, Xie Baiyuan grabbed Fang Li into his arms, and his waist was tightly bound.

Fang Li: "..."

He always felt that Xie Baiyuan was a little abnormal these two days, but he couldn't tell what was abnormal.

To be honest, after entering the dungeon, especially at night, Xie Baiyuan seems to be less proactive about the dungeon mission than before.

Fang Li closed his eyes and thought for a while, then felt that he was thinking too much. The even breathing of Xie Baiyuan beside him made him feel relieved, and he soon fell asleep again.

This night is destined to be uneven.

At three o'clock in the morning, there was no light in the yard.

If someone got up at night at this time, they might be horrified to find that there was a rustling sound coming from the inconspicuous dog hole in the corner of the yard.

Originally, only one person could get in and out of the hole, but it expanded to two meters in diameter after a while.

A "thing" crawled in from the hole. The "thing" had hands and feet. At first glance, it looked like a human being, but it couldn't walk upright, its torso was deformed, and its back was arched like a whole turtle shell.

After this "thing" got in, it quietly crawled into one of the small buildings.

When Fang Li woke up, something happened in the yard and it was very noisy.It was already bright outside, and Xie Baiyuan got up earlier than him as usual.

He took out his cell phone from his bag and glanced at the time, which showed that it was 06:30.

Fang Li recorded this time in the memo on his mobile phone, then went out with the washing tools, and met Zhu Yicheng who was about to go upstairs to find him.

Fang Li asked, "What happened?"

Zhu Yicheng scratched his head, with a bitter expression on his face: "Brother Yuan just asked me to call you, but the dog hole in the yard was dug up by some wicked person, and now the hole is as big as the gate of the courtyard. Village Zhang is bringing people to find out who did it, and everyone else said it was Gong Xuefeng."

At this time, Gong Xuefeng's voice came from behind, his tone sounded very angry, and he unconsciously brought on the accent from his hometown when he spoke: "There is something wrong, I said that I stayed up most of the night to dig dog holes , Is it good for me to make this hole bigger or something?"